Lagosians love good food. They love local cuisines with great delicacies. But time at work does not always permit them to prepare these foods at home. A few do not even know how to prepare them even though they enjoy eating them at all times. But that shouldn’t be a problem if you live and work in Ojodu. Ojodu is not far away into the heart of Lagos, so you can expect to eat good food there as soon as you enter into the commercial hub of Nigeria.
Here then are some of the restaurants where you can savour rich African cuisines delicately prepared to keep you licking your fingers:
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- Amala Hotspot Restaurant
- Luli Restaurant
- Hajia Restaurant
- Mama Victor Restaurant
- Niiras Restaurant, etc.
Most of these restaurants or “Buka” if you want, serve delicious and tasty Nigerian dishes at affordable prices. You can expect to eat local dishes such as –
- Amala and ewedu soup
- Starch and banga soup
- Tuwo and shinkafa
- Pounded yam or eba with egusi soup
- Local Nigerian soups such as –
- Bitter leaf soup
- Edikaikong
- Efo riro
- Uha
- Ogbono
- Nsala
- Afang
- Mixed okro, etc.
- Jollof and white rice
- Yam and beans
Almost all of these restaurants provide eat-in, take-away and home-delivery services.
These local Ojodu restaurants are run by Igbos, Hausas, Yorubas, Calabar couples, Edo cooks, Rivers madams and other ethnic tribes despite the fact that Lagos is predominantly Yoruba. Customers can expect to eat their local dishes fully prepared the traditional way. And you can always check out the next restaurant if one does not have what you want to eat.
To this extent, you can also expect tastefully prepared fresh and smoked meats such as –
- Cow meat
- Goat meat
- Chicken and turkey
- Snails and periwinkles
- Bush meats
- Catfish, tilapia and seafish, etc.
Always situated in populated areas, these food joints are always accessible and within trekkable distance if you live and work in Ojodu. Many of them have car parks where vehicles can be securely parked till you are done eating. And you can trust that the bukas are always on point for breakfasts, lunch and dinner for all types of customers. Ojodu and other parts of Lagos is always crowded with throngs going and coming, and the restaurants are always ready to satiate the appetites of customers any time of the day or nights.